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Old 05-05-2012
Only have initramfs now...
Long story short, I had a ps3 with both Lenny and Sid repositories. Knowing this is a bad idea and that Lenny is being deprecated I decided I wanted to move everything to Sid. I changed my repos and ran apt-get-update, upgrade, dist-upgrade. Had one warning during the apt-get upgrade that version of HAL I was about to install would not be supported by the kernel. I figured dist-upgrade would add a new kernel and if not I had made a backup. I proceeded and after rebooting I just have an "initramfs" prompt instead of a kde login screen. There's no apt or dpkg and it seems my backup file may be corrupted as it does not open now...

I would like to get this up and running again, preferably with Sid.

If anyone has ANY advice it would be MUCH appreciated.
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find-repos-of-install

find-repos-of-install(1)												  find-repos-of-install(1)

NAME

       find-repos-of-install - report which Yum repository a package was installed from

SYNOPSIS

       find-repos-of-install [options] package1 [package2...]

DESCRIPTION

       find-repos-of-install is a program which reports the Yum repository that a specified package was installed from.

OPTIONS

       --version
	      Report program version and exit.

       -h, --help
	      Display a help message, and then quit.

       --repoid=REPOID
	      Specify repo ids to query, can be specified multiple times (default is all enabled).

       --enablerepo=ENABLEREPOS
	      In  addition  to	the  default set, query the given additional repository, even if it is disabled in YUM configuration.  Can be used
	      multiple times.

       --disablerepo=DISABLEREPOS
	      Do not query the given repository, even if it is enabled in YUM configuration.  Can be used multiple times.

       --repofrompath=REPOID,PATH/URL
	      Specify a path or url to a repository (same path as in a baseurl) to add to the repositories for this query. This option can be used
	      multiple	times. If you want to view only the pkgs from this repository combine this with --repoid. The repoid for the repository is
	      specified by REPOID.

       -C, --cache
	      Tells repoquery to run entirely from YUM cache - does not download any metadata or update the cache. Queries in this mode  can  fail
	      or give partial/incorrect results if the cache isn't fully populated beforehand with eg "yum makecache".

       --tempcache
	      Use a temp dir for storing/accessing yum-cache.

       --sync2yumdb
	      Sync anything that is found to the yumdb, if available.

SEE ALSO

       yum.conf (5)
       http://yum.baseurl.org/

AUTHORS

       See the Authors file included with this program.

								  13 January 2013					  find-repos-of-install(1)